What do you know about Chess?

Not going to lie, any time you hit a 9 day streak on something, you’re officially out of the "trying it out" phase and into the "building a habit" phase.

If you’re looking to fill those gaps in your collection properly, a better way to do it without the "messiness" is to go to Social > Members, search for the specific country you're missing, and send a friendly challenge to someone currently online.

To really move the needle, you’ve got to start analyzing your games the second they’re over. Look at why you lost and push yourself to find a clear purpose behind every single move you make. If there’s no meaning behind a move, it shouldn't be on the board.

What do you know about Chess? | Day 1 
The first "computer" to beat a human at chess wasn't actually a computer. it was a total fraud.

In 1770, an inventor debuted "The Turk," a mechanical man that defeated grandmasters and world leaders (including Napoleon and Ben Franklin). For 84 years, people thought it was a miracle of engineering.

The reality ? A flesh and blood chess master was cramped inside a hidden compartment, pulling levers and watching the board through magnets. It’s the ultimate reminder that even back then, people were obsessed with "perfect" logic, even if they had to fake it.
(Find the logic behind every move, or don't make it. Let's analyze the gaps and sharpen our strategy together. Friend me @Sherlock_Sight for more educational content.)

Sorry I don't have platinum and It only let's me analyze like 1 or 2 games.

At what point does "playing for a win" become "playing for a blunder"?

When you get tired of chess

never

When the moves start feeling heavy and the logic feels like a reach, I just step away. Chess is a high intensity mental workout, and if you're not careful, you'll burn out trying to make every game a masterpiece.

I usually switch gears entirely. Just finding a quiet space to focus on something outside the 64 squares. Like giving your brain the "reset" it needs to actually process what you’ve learned. Most of the time, I come back to the board with much better clarity after a few days of zero chess.

People need chess breaks. Especially people with like 700 elo. (I am not even close to it.) Playing chess is fun but can get tiring or fell like it's too much information. I don't know if the variant might help with the problem but honestly in you need a break just take one.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

in my opinion the variants are like a nice little break even tho im not even close to 700 elo

kool

For most players, trying to force progress during burnout is a losing battle. A variant might offer a temporary change of pace, but it’s still the same high intensity logic. Honestly, the most productive move is exactly: just walk away for a bit. Taking a break isn't a setback; it's actually when your "perfect foundations" have a chance to solidify. You'll often find that after a few days off, the board looks much simpler and your vision is sharper than when you were grinding every day.

Variants like Duck Chess or Fog of War work so well as a break because they shift the goalposts. Instead of worrying about perfect opening theory or deep positional foundations, you’re just solving a fun, chaotic puzzle.

Look at my bughouse play. How can I improve. (I won because The opponent's partner got checkmated/stalemated. Idk which one, I wasn't paying attention)